Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. | |
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| NUMBER: | 1075 |
AUTHOR: | Gerrit Smith (17971874) |
QUOTATION: | Libertyprecious boon of Heavenis meek and reasonable. She admits, that she belongs to allto the high and the low; the rich and the poor; the black and the whiteand, that she belongs to them all equally
. But true liberty acknowledges and defends the equal rights of all men, and all nations. |
ATTRIBUTION: | Representative GERRIT SMITH, remarks in the House, June 27, 1854, Congressional Globe, vol. 23, Appendix, p. 1016. |
SUBJECTS: | Liberty |
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